# Onboarding: Your First Steps ⛵

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Now that you have all the details, let's get started! We're going to do four things:

1. **Create your Hugging Face Account** if it's not already done
2. **Sign up to Discord and introduce yourself** (don't be shy 🤗)
3. **Follow the Hugging Face Agents Course** on the Hub
4. **Spread the word** about the course

### Step 1: Create Your Hugging Face Account

(If you haven’t already) create a Hugging Face account <a href='https://huggingface.co/join'>here</a>.

### Step 2: Join Our Discord Community

You can now sign up for our Discord Server. This is where you can **chat with the community (including us!)**, join study groups, and grow together.

👉🏻 Join our discord server <a href="https://discord.gg/UrrTSsSyjb">here.</a>

When you join, remember to introduce yourself in `#introduce-yourself`.

We have multiple AI Agents-related channels:
- `agents-course-announcements`: for the **latest course informations**.
- `🎓-agents-course-general`: for **general discussions and chitchat**.
- `agents-course-questions`: to **ask questions and help your classmates**.
- `agents-course-showcase`: to **show your best agents**.

In addition you can check:

- `smolagents`: for **discussion and support with the library**.

If this is your first time using Discord, we wrote a Discord 101 to get the best practices. Check [the next section](discord101).

### Step 3: Follow the Hugging Face Agent Course Organization

Stay up to date with the latest course materials, updates, and announcements **by following the Hugging Face Agents Course Organization**.

👉 Go [here](https://huggingface.co/agents-course) and click on **follow**.

<img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/agents-course/course-images/resolve/main/en/communication/hf_course_follow.gif" alt="Follow" width="100%"/>

### Step 4: Spread the word about the course

Help us make this course more visible! There are two way you can help us:

1. Show your support by ⭐ <a href="https://github.com/huggingface/agents-course">the course's repository</a>.

<img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/agents-course/course-images/resolve/main/en/communication/please_star.gif" alt="Repo star"/>

2. Share Your Learning Journey: Let others **know you’re taking this course**! We’ve prepared an illustration you can use in your social media posts

<img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/agents-course/course-images/resolve/main/en/communication/share.png">

You can download the image by clicking 👉 [here](https://huggingface.co/datasets/agents-course/course-images/resolve/main/en/communication/share.png?download=true)

Congratulations! 🎉 **You've completed the onboarding process**! You're now ready to start learning about AI Agents. Have fun!

Keep Learning, stay awesome 🤗
